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Show dilUWHALIdlllL Heavy Storm Prevents Observation Obser-vation and Subdues Roar of the Big Guns. LONDON, April 11, 10:30 p. m. The operations along the Arras-Lens Line were greatly impeded by snowstorms. snow-storms. According to the official report re-port from British headquarters tonight the Germans delivered two counterattacks counter-attacks against the British positions In the neighborhood of Monchy-Le-Preux, but these failed. The statement reads: "Snow has fallen heavily and continuously con-tinuously throughout the day, rendering ren-dering observation impossible and greatly impeding the operations of our troops. "This morning two German counter-attacks on our new positions in , the neighborhood of Monchy-Le-Preux were successfully beaten off Prisoners taken in Monchy-Le-Preux state that they had orders to ' hold tho village at all costs. I "Farther south bodies of our troops succeeded in penetrating a ( German position in the neighborhood neighbor-hood of Bullecourt and seared a number of prisoners. At nml-day j they were counter-attacked by large forces of the enemy and forced bark j to their own lihos. The enemy r.t-' tacking troops were effectively engaged en-gaged bj our artillery and suffered I heavy losses. "Our airplanes were active again ! yesterday and in spite of a stroug , gale and frequent snowstor.ns por-1 formed valuable work in LO-opera , tion with our infantry. Few hostile machines were seen. Our airplanes i returned safely." i There havo been several engage-1 ments between the Russians and trie Teutonic allies on the Russian front 1 but no Important changes In the positions po-sitions have resultod. Tho Austrlans and Italians on the western portion of the Austro-Ital-Ian theatre are bombarding each other heavily. On the Carsu plateau, pla-teau, in the east, the Italians have pushed back tho Au3Ultvns at various vari-ous points. |